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 I'm passing an XPath back from an HTML form as a parameter to an XSLT stylesheet. I'm also passing a value to insert into that location, using, XUpdate (specifically XML::XUpdate::LibXML in perl). I'd like to then test the source document for the stylesheet, to see if that XPath is valid. OK, that's easy, I just test="/Big/Long/XPath" but wait, if it's /not/ present then I want to create sufficient nodes to insert the new element in that place. That means I want to test each location step in the XPath, one by one, from root to leaf, to see if it's there. If it isn't, I then create a new node for that location step, and then descend the rest of the XPath, creating nodes until I'm done and then I insert the value. Here's an example of what I want to have happen: source XML docu: <resume>
<header>
<name>
<first>Simon</first>
</name>
</header>
</resume>params from HTML forms into XSLT: XPath: /resume/header/address/country Value: XLandia result XML docu: <resume>
<header>
<name>
<first>Simon</first>
</name>
<address>
<country>
XLandia
</country>
</address>
</header>
</resume>How do I do that? There doesn't seem to be any convenient way to break apart and analyse xpath steps in the spec, and I /don't/ want to start messing around with string conversions... simon --- www.simonwoodside.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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